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<h1 class="refname">inet_pton</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">inet_pton</span> — <span class="dc-title">Converts a human readable IP address to its packed in_addr representation</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>inet_pton</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$address</code></span>
)</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
This function converts a human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address (if PHP
was built with IPv6 support enabled) into an address family appropriate
32bit or 128bit binary structure.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.inet-pton-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
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<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">address</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
A human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address.
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</dl>
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns the <em>in_addr</em> representation of the given
<em><code class="parameter">address</code></em>, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> if a syntactically invalid
<em><code class="parameter">address</code></em> is given (for example, an IPv4 address
without dots or an IPv6 address without colons).
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.inet-pton-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<div class="example" id="example-4490">
<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>inet_pton()</strong></span> Example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$in_addr </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">inet_pton</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'127.0.0.1'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /> <br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$in6_addr </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">inet_pton</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'::1'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
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<div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-function.inet-pton-changelog">
<h3 class="title">Changelog</h3>
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<th>Version</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<td>5.3.0</td>
<td>
This function is now available on Windows platforms.
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.inet-pton-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ip2long.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ip2long()</a> - Converts a string containing an (IPv4) Internet Protocol dotted address into a proper address</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.long2ip.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">long2ip()</a> - Converts an (IPv4) Internet network address into a string in Internet standard dotted format</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.inet-ntop.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">inet_ntop()</a> - Converts a packed internet address to a human readable representation</span></li>
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